Health and Safety Coordinator - Wakefield

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc; Battyeford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Share scheme

Competitive pension contributions

Holiday buy/sell scheme

Free parking

Flexible working

Job summary

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Wakefield site is hiring a Health & Safety Coordinator to drive compliance and continuous improvement across manufacturing and logistics operations. You will engage with site leadership, coordinate risk assessments, investigations and safety training, and help maintain a culture where safety is everyone's responsibility.

The role focuses on practical shop-floor engagement, audits, and delivering safety plans while supporting wellbeing programmes and incident

Qualifications

• Experience supporting health and safety activities within a manufacturing or logistics environment.
• Experience conducting or supporting health and safety risk assessments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across all levels of the business.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to analyse information, identify risks and support problem solving.
• Proactive and organised with ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Commitment to promoting a positive safety culture and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Supporting compliance with legal, company and ISO requirements across the site.
• Coordinating and supporting risk assessments, including task-based, COSHH, fire, DSEAR and contractor-related assessments.
• Assisting with incident and accident investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions implemented.
• Supporting the development and delivery of site health and safety plans, campaigns and communications.
• Coordinating safety audits, inspections and monitoring activities to identify improvement opportunities.
• Working with stakeholders to support safe introduction of new products, processes and projects.
• Supporting occupational health and wellbeing programmes and health surveillance where required.
• Delivering and coordinating safety inductions and monitoring training compliance across the site.
• Producing reports, monitoring performance trends and providing insights for continuous improvement.
• Promoting positive safety behaviours and embedding a strong safety culture with visible engagement across site.
• Ensuring availability of safety and first aid supplies.

Skills

Health & Safety

Risk assessments

Stakeholder engagement

Auditing

Training delivery

Incident investigation

Continuous improvement

Data analysis

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Health & Safety Coordinator

As a Health & Safety Coordinator, you'll play an important role in helping us maintain a safe, healthy and high-performing workplace. Working closely with operational teams and site leadership, you'll help drive compliance, support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to a culture where everyone takes ownership of safety. What to expect: This is a varied role that combines practical shop-floor engagement with analysis, auditing, training and project support. You'll work across the site, helping to ensure health and safety standards remain at the heart of everything we do.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting compliance with legal, company and ISO requirements across the site.


• Coordinating and supporting risk assessments, including task-based, COSHH, fire, DSEAR and contractor-related assessments.


• Assisting with incident and accident investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and effective preventative actions are implemented.


• Supporting the development and delivery of site health and safety plans, campaigns and communications.


• Coordinating safety audits, inspections and monitoring activities to ensure standards are maintained and opportunities for improvement are identified.


• Working alongside stakeholders to support the safe introduction of new products, processes and projects.


• Supporting occupational health and wellbeing programmes, including health surveillance activities where required.


• Delivering and coordinating safety inductions and helping monitor training compliance across the site.


• Producing reports, monitoring performance trends and providing insights to support continuous improvement.


• Promoting positive safety behaviours and helping embed a strong safety culture through visible presence and engagement across site.


• Ensuring availability of safety and first aid supplies across the site.

Skills & Essentials

We're looking for someone with a passion for health and safety, strong attention to detail and the confidence to build positive relationships across all levels of the business.

Essential:

• Experience supporting health and safety activities within a manufacturing, logistics or operational environment.


• Experience conducting or supporting health and safety risk assessments.


• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across all levels of the business.


• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.


• Ability to analyse information, identify risks and support effective problem-solving.


• A proactive and organised approach with the ability to manage multiple priorities.


• A genuine commitment to promoting a positive safety culture and continuous improvement.

Desirable:

• IOSH Managing Safely qualification.


• NEBOSH General Certificate, NVQ Level 3 in Occupational Health & Safety, or equivalent qualification.


• Experience within an FMCG manufacturing environment, ideally food or beverage production.


• Experience supporting accident and incident investigations.


• Knowledge of root cause analysis techniques and continuous improvement methodologies.


• Experience supporting ISO management systems and audit programmes.


• Understanding of occupational health and health surveillance processes.

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

Join a business built on trusted brands, great people and teamwork, where care and fresh ideas help keep things moving.

Here, your contribution helps serve our customers, support our operations and enable our teams to do their best work.

You'll be encouraged to bring your strengths, supported to grow, and welcomed into a team where we make a meaningful difference together.

Location and contract

• Wakefield


• Permanent


• Monday- Friday 37.5hrs per week


• Salary: Circa £36k


• Structured career development


• Annual performance related pay bonus and pay reviews


• Private Medical Insurance


• Share scheme


• Competitive pension contributions


• Range of flexible benefits and Corporate discounts


• holiday buy/sell scheme


• optional health care and life assurance


• Free parking


• Free hot and cold drinks and subsidised canteen


• Excellent parental benefits


• Flexible working

What you become part of: Wakefield Operations is one of the largest and most advanced manufacturing facilities within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.

Producing some of the world's most recognised brands, the site operates in a fast-paced, highly automated environment where safety, quality and continuous improvement drive everything we do.

With significant investment in people, technology and operational excellence, Wakefield offers the opportunity to build a rewarding career while making a tangible impact on business performance.

Collaboration, innovation and development are at the heart of our culture, creating an environment where individuals and teams can thrive.

If you're passionate about creating safer workplaces, enjoy working collaboratively and want to develop your career in a world-class manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), with 39,000 people serving 4 million customers across 31 markets.

We combine the scale of a large multinational business with expert local knowledge of the customers and communities we serve, investing, employing, manufacturing and distributing locally.

At CCEP, we welcome people from all backgrounds and value the experiences and perspectives they bring.

We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves, feel respected and thrive.

This commitment is reflected in our recognition as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and as a Disability Confident Leader.

We recognise that some people may prefer not to participate in alcohol-related sales, interactions or promotions.

If this applies to you, please speak with your Talent Acquisition contact, who can advise whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.